Westminster News

As the Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism I have responsibilities on a broad range of policy areas from promoting the UK as a tourist destination, to the protection of heritage buildings, to supporting our world class culture sector.

The UK ranks number one in the world in terms of ‘soft power’ (the ability to affect others to obtain preferred outcomes by the co-optive means of framing the agenda, persuasion and positive attraction) and this is, in part, due to the investment that we put into aiding other countries.

Regular readers will know that in December I announced the findings of the annual Treasure Report in line with my responsibilities as Heritage Minister – and you can read about that here: https://www.michaelellis.co.uk/ne

2018 marked 100 years of Women’s Suffrage – a huge milestone in furthering equality in this country. As such, 2018 saw a number of events celebrating this anniversary, such as “Vote 100” which marked the milestone in Parliament.